Cumbrian writer Jacob Polley has won the UK's most lucrative poetry award, the TS Eliot Prize.
The Carlisle-born poet won the prestigious prize for his new collection, Jackself, which the judges called "a firework of a book".
Polley, who has penned four poetry collections and is a previous winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, was presented with a cheque for £20,000 at a ceremony in London.
Judges Ruth Padel, Julia Copus and Alan Gillis selected Polley's work from a shortlist of six women and four men which included Trinidadian poet Vahni Capildeo and British poets Rachael Boast, Ian Duhig, Alice Oswald and Katharine Towers.
Others in the running for the award were Scottish poet J O Morgan, Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, and English writers Denise Riley and Ruby Robinson.
The short-listed poets all receive £1,500.
Judges' chairwoman Padel said: "All three judges were agonised by choosing between such brilliant books.
"But the winning collection, Jacob Polley's Jackself, is a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling."
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